Christiane kubrick kirk douglas

German actress, dancer, painter, singer (born 1932)

Christiane Susanne Kubrick (néeHarlan; born 10 May 1932) is a German actress and painter.

She was born into a theatrical family (her uncle was the film director Veit Harlan), and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999.

Life and career

Christiane Susanne Harlan was born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1932, the daughter of two opera singers, Ingeborg (née de Freitas) and Fritz Moritz Harlan.

Christiane kubrick kirk douglas

She was trained as an actress, but became better known as a painter. Success in her early career as an actress led to her being cast in the film Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick, being credited as Susanne Christian.^[1][2]

In the final scene of Paths of Glory, the young woman she plays is forced to sing to a tavern full of rowdy and disillusioned French soldiers.

Her rendition in German of the German folk song Ein treuer Husar (The Faith